Right, say CM Punk's mum had cancer. She almost died and was technically dead for awhile. She pulled through though and was getting better.

Do you think Punk would care if WWE ran a story a week or two later to get someone over with them mocking his almost dead mum and her illness? You think he would go with it and if he did you would think wwe was 'edgy' for soing so?

This is a really dumb hypothetical scenario that has very little to do with the topic at hand.

But it isn't and it has everything to do with it. I simply changed the names around and the connection around i.e cancer instead of heart attack.
There is no good or bad way of someone almost dying. There is only someone almost dying.
The point is a lot of people saying its fine have a Punk avatar or sig. Which would indicate he is probably their fav wrestler right now.
So would you think the same if it was wwe using say his mum almost dying to generate heat for another superstar?

I say we stop complaining I didn't even care when Paul Heyman was having the "heart attack", Is it going over the line? No...why? Because I like having something different other than the crappy jokes we always get. I'd rather be taken off guard then cringe to a corny joke so please, get over it and just watch, it's TV get used to it.

The fact that people are defending this is disgusting. Then again, wrestling is trashy. And fuck, Vince McMahon is one sick dude. The same guy that exploited Eddie's death, had satanic sacrifices performed on TV, and practiced necrophilia.....he has no boundaries.

Basically this...anyone defending this is really making me question their intelligence. I get that you all think that Lawler "had to agree to it", but do you think that means he has to be ok with it? Vince is a cold businessman, who probably told Lawler that he was gunna do it regardless. And you all think that Punk was gunna say no to the guy who signs his multi-million dollar paycheck? FUCK NO.

Face it, all parties involved probably agreed to this...against their better judgement, and probably their own wills. Regardless, even if all sides amicably agreed to let this stunt play out, it's a despicable act to let a company try to turn a profit by turning a serious life event into yet another scripted storyline.

Basically this...anyone defending this is really making me question their intelligence. I get that you all think that Lawler "had to agree to it", but do you think that means he has to be ok with it? Vince is a cold businessman, who probably told Lawler that he was gunna do it regardless. And you all think that Punk was gunna say no to the guy who signs his multi-million dollar paycheck? FUCK NO.

Face it, all parties involved probably agreed to this...against their better judgement, and probably their own wills. Regardless, even if all sides amicably agreed to let this stunt play out, it's a despicable act to let a company try to turn a profit by turning a serious life event into yet another scripted storyline.

I'm sure King agreed with that segment. If he didn't the fuck him, this is the same Jerry Lawler that delivered that promo about Goldust and was endlessly harassing Jake the Snake about his problems with alcohol without asking for permission whatsoever.

I'm speechless. I wanted the product to get edgier, but this? This is plain disrespectful, not entertaining, and a complete lack of sanity.

I can't help it but think this is a jab at Linda for losing somehow, so she can never run for senate again. Absolutely despising.

Does anyone actually think this is acceptable?

I wonder if they are going to continue with the "BA★" campaign after this nonsense.

Well when I saw those digitals I laugh, so there you go. In terms of the moral slant? It's really hard to call, mostly because wrestling is impossible to compare to anything else because it's much less removed. The only thing I definitely don't like is things genuinely do happen sometimes (as shown by Lawler's heart attack) and when they cry wolf like this it makes a lot of people second guess, almost to an annoying "everything is a work" stage.